'Complete Guide to Primary Swimming' is designed to support school teachers with limited knowledge and experience of teaching swimming deliver the swimming component of the National Curriculum for key stages 1 and 2.

"Everything you need to know from first entering the water, to performing the four basic swimming strokes."

As a beginner learning how to swim you face many, often scary unknowns. From first entering the water, to lifting your feet up off the bottom, submerging your face and learning to breathe. From conquering your fears right through to learning what each part of your body should be doing when swimming the four basic strokes, The Complete Beginners Guide To Swimming contains everything you could possibly need. Contents: The Benefits of Swimming Fear of Swimming Swimming Science Buoyancy Aids Entering The Pool Learning To Go Underwater Standing Up Mid Swim How To Float How To Relax In The Water How To Glide Through The Water How And When To Breathe Basic Floating Exercises Front Crawl Backstroke Breaststroke Butterfly Inside you will find ‘real questions’ from real beginners learning how to swim. Questions like ‘why do my legs sink?”, “why do I get water up my nose?” and ‘why do I get so tired?”. Each one with a detailed and personal answer from the author.

Teaching swimming is one of the best jobs in the world. Giving adults and children one of the most important life skills is challenging, hugely rewarding and great fun all at the same time. How To Be A Swimming Teacher gives you everything you need. Discover: • the essential qualities that make an outstanding swimming teacher • the equipment needed to teach effective swimming lessons • how to teach the all-important basics such as floating, breathing and submerging • how to plan and prepare swimming lessons that get results • why teaching adults is different and how to approach it • a detailed breakdown of all four basic swimming strokes • over 80 fully illustrated swimming exercises containing diagrams, teaching points and common mistakes Plus many more tools to help you master your profession and deliver outstanding swimming lessons.

See how to achieve stronger starts, more explosive turns, and faster times! Swimming Anatomy will show you how to improve your performance by increasing muscle strength and optimizing the efficiency of every stroke. Swimming Anatomy includes 74 of the most effective swimming exercises, each with step-by-step descriptions and full-color anatomical illustrations highlighting the primary muscles in action. Swimming Anatomy goes beyond exercises by placing you on the starting block, in the water, and into the throes of competition. Illustrations of the active muscles for starts, turns, and the four competitive strokes (freestyle, breaststroke, butterfly, and backstroke) show you how each exercise is fundamentally linked to swimming performance. You’ll also learn how exercises can be modified to target specific areas, improve your form in the water, and minimize common swimming injuries. Best of all, you’ll learn how to put it all together to develop a training program based on your individual needs and goals. Whether you are training for a 50-meter freestyle race or the open-water stage of a triathlon, Swimming Anatomy will ensure you enter the water prepared to achieve every performance goal.

Swim better—and enjoy every lap—with Total Immersion, a guide to improving your swimming from an expert with more than thirty years of experience in the water. Terry Laughlin, the world’s #1 authority on swimming success, has made his unique approach even easier for anyone to master. Whether you’re an accomplished swimmer or have always found swimming to be a struggle, Total Immersion will show you that it’s mindful fluid movement—not athletic ability—that will turn you into an efficient swimmer. This new edition of the bestselling Total Immersion features: -A thoughtfully choreographed series of skill drills—practiced in the mindful spirit of yoga—that can help anyone swim more enjoyably -A holistic approach to becoming one with the water and to developing a swimming style that’s always comfortable -Simple but thorough guidance on how to improve fitness and form -A complementary land-and-water program for achieving a strong and supple body at any age Based on more than thirty years of teaching, coaching, and research, Total Immersion has dramatically improved the physical and mental experience of swimming for thousands of people of all ages and abilities.

The 82 fully illustrated exercises contained in this text can help any beginner learn and practice swimming, and aid swimmers in eliminating bad habits and fine-tuning their swimming.